Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-03-18
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TIE RsE Eszrsh e Jaiy Cesebrzfiea--
The \ a. c. Ain Trsuhle-Atnah
ssFees-eshes News.
/ lEBsuIAR CoEzEAPoSDKxcR Posx-xErEL-
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1 A meeting wRs bald ss she TkcsUa
Hessi feu days a96 TO bern eErsnRe
u8ents for she Rsurth Of July eelebf4-
tion that IL 20 give esiat 20 Tue flushing
OF The Caasade Division Of TIE horthern
Pseids 4 IilFsad. TIE suRRestion vas
made some months ago by kEra Meesef
that TIE event Be hoaofed ~ . bag pc
nie 90 she veRs s11mit Of the moan.
tains-ekere the road cesses TO 20 up
and esmmen e. 70 30 dauB. Ine prop
0siti0n net With great favsr aHoHR the
theoretical. bat 81 the meeting The prae
tieal psople present exploded y By
d1aaram q the aaumit skoEinS Is % Dc
q round bald place that ado ded staud
ing room for abo1t SO people, II they
would all hold on so each other 20 pre-
vent them feom stiding dogn into the
canyon Of Mosquito creek. Il vas
sha9n thai b. aoldina thus toRetncE
they m Rbt be compaRatively safe, aud
n they wonld avoid looking down, need
not nee ssaTily ees dizxy and 20 enjoy
quite Q hilarious time. Bot Il vas
thought there might be more fan, less
danger, and msEe money in IL for Ia
cana IL the eeIebxation wes held here
So 10 vas decided upon. subisot 20 con
dFmasion 81 a later meeting, that this
should be tbs scene Of the Giddy reyelry.
The program 90 far ~ ou'iiDed 10 thak
there shall be 81 excursion train from
Tacoma
70 TIE SUMMIT
Carrying the city and railroad anthoFi-
ties. There they will meet the deleRa-
ti0ns from east Of the mountains. and
extend 70 them the Welcome of the west.
There il no doubt that bia time - 81
ticipated. At the meeting referred to
some nine or ten persoss we're present.
among them two OF three Of the rail-
road engineers, Who entertained she
others with illustrations Of tse deelivit-
oug nature of things up about the
sVitshbaak. a laboFeF there Went 20
sleeo with ais back against the mount
ain and his head toward the summit.
one night last summer. said one. OAR
ing his slumbeFs be lost his poise, and
never stoppad until be rolled into the
cold waters Of thu creek AZ the bottom
of tue canyon. The stofI vas believed.
&c yrs found Necessary las vas also re-
lated at the mestipg) to build . side
tRAok On the sammit 90 meet any eu0F-
gency thas may arise for shifting ears.
aud this has taken mp Abput ell the
ssare ground there was TO be hBd there
thai il not standing on end or already
employed By the tracks Of the switch
back.
Annie Walkes is dead. Her fHuersl
takes place On Saturday. She viii be
buried In the Catholic graveyard AMI
Father Hylebos viii coudnct tbs servi
ces, she having died 10 that faith Her
will has been found all right N her safe,
aad, IS stated yesterday, leaves all 20
her aon-a provision being made With
rag4rd to the $500 fiippen bsquess, thai
It revert to him IN case MolIie should
die hrst.
THE I. n O. q. IN TROUBLE.
Quite an exciting meeting Of tse Y.
n. g. A. vas held Wednesday night
the purpose being to decide as TO toe
feasibility Of containing she institu-
ton or closing 10 up. Upon the direct
question. majority voted for oOnsinu
Tag. bat an equal majority voted for
giving up the present large ball and
reading Feom and moving 10 smaller
and less exp Isive quarters. The pres
ent rooms cost $40 asponth. The asso-
citation owes about $500. There are
sums due 1t for subscriptions, dues and
other rentals amounting TO above $500.
The association has Jagged in public
interest for a long time aud has been
continually falling behind, dnsnstlHy,
- II sRk to
vive IL by prominent Y III. q. A. " .Tk
era who visited the city last fall and
talked Of q new building, gymnasium,
baths, reading room, etc. los aasocia-
ton has recently almost despaired Of its
ability 20 gst Ous Of debt, and the ques-
ton Of dissolvlaR has repeatedly been
mooted At the meeting R3y. Mr.. Lar
sen plainly stated that ths daily meet
inRs we're little more than a place for
the carrying on of hlrtations. aud be
thought thak as the Salvation Array
would soon be here to follow Mrs.
Hemus 10 her revival work. they (the
Y. NJ. O. A. meetin0s), might a. well be
discontinued. Sous warm talk fol
lowed this proposition. Mr. Larson
was, until recently, the q neral Sesre-
tarv Of the association hsfe, reoeivlnR
$50 per month for his services. Tie
slecsian of tbs board Of directors. who's
took place at this meeting. left the
minister's (Who had always hitherto
been Represented on the boardl entirely
cut. he board elected was o. A.
lavender. for tSelve months, and @. II.
Aitken, ID. ID. Clarke, J. Balts. Jr., W.
D. Tyler, K. =. BaEioS, l. Cook, q. IL
aolliae and g. r. Orchard, for three
Years eace. The association will not,
II Is thought, move from their present
rooms at once. IL IL intimAted that ex-
cellent Foems voald be provided In Q
new building. proposed 20 be built by
H. Fife, and u this is stated as q
certainty they viii await the bailding.
YRoM SEATTLE.
r. Toklas, Of Toklas a singsrman Of
seattle, passed through the city Wed
nesday morning bound for Seattle. caF.
ryinR q heavy satekel supposs d TO con
tain the $50 co necessary for the par
chase Of q corner lot in Seattle, where,
be says, the Arm Gill erect the nnest
baildinR on the Sound. Nj. fokias Il
one Of the largest baFers OF dry goods
on the Sound, purchasing as be does for
-four houses-thzt Of 10klRs r. Singer.
mAn Of seattle. the Great kastera Of
TplkAue Il ais n huAAaau a b7fitilcA %
Taconna and Toklas 4 kaufman of
Olympia. Mr.. Toklas sPeads half Of
his time In San Francisco and the other
half in New York. He states that the
seattle hrm ke,P 9 repress utatlve
buyer 10 Germany IA the person Of II
AuerbAsb, and that J. b. MoDSuSal OF
the frm Dskes 0ne or two trips per year
20 Nsw York. Mr.. rsklss STAKES that
the proposed building will be osmmeuced
AZ once on she corner of ColuU0ta and
Front streets. aud that he is nos on bis
wayfo look NJ tha plsna and speOieoa-
lions Of the baildiae IN seattle.
so MoR1 EIaHT.
Aud pow Mr. Psus Coz SAYS he can't
pat his lgat 10 taoOma--in whtsh cay
inc be was anticipated by the Posr-
ISTEt11oKSoEa some weeks age. The
Nerchauts' Electric Light Company,
ha sxplains has besn handicapped by